They're here (Audits on R/E professionals)

[ILLMAS]

Just wondering if any of your R/E prof. clients have been selected for an examination?

[jainen]

>>Just wondering<<

Tell your client to get busy reconstructing his time sheet. Kiplinger includes this in the Dirty Dozen audit red flags this year. http://www.kiplinger.com/features/archives/12-audit-red-flags-the-irs-looks-for.html

[barosser]

Have had several Real Estate audits refered to me over the last 2 years. They are hammering this especially if the TP has another W-2 job.

[joanmcq]

And since most returns that claim RE pro aren't, it's easy pickin's for the IRS. And big bucks.

[Max W]

There here? How about they're (contraction for They are).

[ILLMAS]

There here? How about they're (contraction for They are).

Thank you grammar police, can't imagine this world without you :)

[kcjenkins]

I fixed that for you, so Max will feel better when he sees it next. I too tend to be a bit of a 'grammar police' person myself. The result of a wonderful, but extremely strict, teacher in high school, I expect. Mrs Rogers was a tiny little woman, who could with one look make the biggest football jock swallow his gum without a moments hesitation. And she drilled us on proper use of the English language in ways that made all her students use better grammar all the time. She was a good artist, so used pictures to help us understand. I can still see her drawing of the phrase 'the old man was sweeping the floor with a long white beard". I still move a descriptive phrase when it is misplaced, just because of that one example.

So things like that topic heading just grate on me. It's not a big deal, but if you look at an old post and suddenly notice that some typo or split infinitive has been corrected, it's probably because I read it. :P

[Jack from Ohio]

Past, Present & Future walked into a bar.....

It was Tense

[kcjenkins]

Love it.

[joanmcq]

I'm glad it was fixed because the I read the title and it didn't make sense to me, but I clicked just because it said 'audits'.

[JohnH]

"This is the sort of arrant criticism up with which I will not put." :)

[jainen]

>>it didn't make sense to me<<

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less."

"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things."

"The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all."

[JohnH]

The difference between the almost right word & the right word is really a large matter--

it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.

- Mark Twain, in a Letter to George Bainton, 10/15/1888

[Gail in Virginia]

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

Jack Lynch

[Jack from Ohio]

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

Jack Lynch

Those are not arguments. It is simply that some people do not know the right choices!! Hands down... IBM (PC), Pepsi & briefs.

[ILLMAS]

"Is your name Dan Druff?? You get into people's hair."

[Kea]

The power of the comma is amazing. For example:

Woman without her man is nothing.

It seems where you put the comma(s) may be related to whether you are a man or a woman.

[JohnH]

I don' think I can read it only one way.

I don't think, I can read it only one way.

[Max W]

I am not prone to correcting misspelling or grammar, although I have had lots of practice doing so.

We raised three kids and one had a heck of a time in high school with spelling and grammar. I finally got him straightened out. He went on to college and later a masters.

In the early 60's, I proofread for various publications. Since then, there is rarely a book that I have read that does not have at least one misspelling.

[joanmcq]

A signature line on another message board:

'Grammar-the difference between:

Let's eat, Grandma!

Let's eat Grandma!

[Pacun]

Yes, the IRS always audits those people... maybe more this year since this is a hot topic here.

[mcb39]

For some reason, I always seem to catch the spelling and/or grammar errors in books, and I read a lot. Also, for some reason, it always irritates me. I wonder if this is the result of too much "Spell check" as opposed to actual human proofreading. Once again, I think we lay the credit (or blame) to a good grade school education wherein Grammar and Spelling were stringently taught. However, I would never correct anyone else unless I was asked to. We all have our own and varied areas of expertise. :read:

[kcjenkins]

Gosh, I had forgotten that one! Mrs Rogers drew a horrifying picture of the second sentence, with grandma on a plate, apple in her mouth, about to be carved up! I suspect I actually wanted to forget that one!